GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| irate | roused to ire |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |